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What determined the places where Jewish people lived and their movements? If individual family members have gone on ahead, there was the natural tendency of other family members to follow. For those who eventually settled in Croatia, records suggest that the usual route was from Bohemia and Moravia into the western counties of old Hungary (now in Slovakia and the Austrian Burgenland) and then through southern Hungary into Croatia and Slavonia. | |||
It is not always clear to which of the nearby larger communities the few families of Jews in the smaller villages would have belonged. It is important to look carfully in the surrounding communities. Within the pre-1918 Hungarian Kingdom, many places had different German, Hungarian and Slavic names. | |||
'''Jewish Registers''' | '''Jewish Registers''' | ||
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Number of Jewish registers include ''Konskription'', which meant census or enrollment. They are similar to the 1848 census but give actual dates of birth instead of age. | Number of Jewish registers include ''Konskription'', which meant census or enrollment. They are similar to the 1848 census but give actual dates of birth instead of age. | ||
For more information on this topic see an excellent article ''Researching Jewish Family History in Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary'' by Malcolm Scott Hardy published in AVOTAYNU (Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001). | For more information on this topic see an excellent article ''Researching Jewish Family History in Croatia, Slavonia and Hungary'' by Malcolm Scott Hardy published in AVOTAYNU (Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001). | ||
[[Category:Croatia]] | [[Category:Croatia]] | ||